If you want a easy, reliable and cross-platform way to share files between computers, phones, etc, it may be of your interest.
Using kde-connect for that, works really nicely cross platform.
Also inb4 “Discord community server - no thanks” :D
I love KDE connect have been using it for years.
Only issue is recently I tried it on my raspberry pi and some features don’t work. Specifically I can’t get clipboard sharing or remote input to work on my raspberry pi.
Works great on my linux laptop. It’s also available for windows but lacks some sruff there unfortunately. For example you can only send one file at a time and many media players in windows are not recognized and yherefore cannot be controlled from the phone.
I know this is the linux community. Just wanted to mention these things for people like me who also have a windows machine for gaming
Stupid question from an ignorant fool: how does this differ from just using bluray to transfer files?
EDIT: GOD I AM AN IDIOT I MEAN BLUETOOTH. BLUETOOTH. XDDD
Also disk drives are basically non-existant these days. But to each their own.
I mistyped. I.meant Bluetooth. Lol.
That being said, disk drives are extremely common if you build your own PC. 😈
Answering the question you meant to ask, blueray is a physica… just kidding.
LocalSend is basically like bluetooth file sharing over WiFi. Bluetooth, especially the fallback 2.0 is notoriously slow and short ranged. The situation got better with BLE, 5.0 and Long Range. Still, both devices need to speak BT. Ap*le’s iOS is well known to ignore BT file sharing capabilities while implementing own proprietary solutions. On desktop, the situation is still bad. I once tried to send a file between two Windows machines via BT, and it was a horrible user experience. LocalSend (and similar) fix this by implementing cross platform apps and using readily available API’s to share files with few clicks and reasonably high speed between a plethora of devices. I guess, if you don’t have the aforementioned problems, you won’t need LocalSend et al.
especially the fallback 2.0 is notoriously slow and short ranged.
So that’s why my Bluetooth file transferring back in like 2015 was slow as balls! I also assumed it was the devices I had. Lol. Which is weird considering I could have sworn I had also done BT file transfers with other devices previously and it seemed a lot faster. (None of these were Apple devices).
Ap*le’s iOS is well known to ignore BT file sharing capabilities while implementing own proprietary solutions.
Rude.
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That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for explaining. :D
It does work over network, so you don’t need any physical connection apart from being in the same network. Therefore, it’s easier, faster, less complicated, and more.
i just use
python -m http.server
Easy.
LocalSend is nice because you can set it up in a push configuration instead of a pull. I used to set up a server like that where I had the file, then go over where I wanted it and navigate and pull it and wait for it to download. But with auto-accept on on LocalSend I can push the file and by the time I get over to where I sent it it is mostly there already.
Really great software. Works like a charm most of the time, the apps are quite okay, sends files locally. The first low-barrier solution to share stuff between wildly different devices since e-mail.
There are many good sollutions for this use case. Personally I use Warpinator — it comes pre-installed with Linux Mint and just works.
